Re: [Fwd: ignoring ID]

[Gerhard Sittig]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 00:46 -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
> 
> (P.S. - maybe there should be a "-I-" counterpart to "-I",
> which would mean "*Don't* ignore files matching the following
> pattern".

Amen!

> This way somebody who wanted to "pay attention to" a single
> file type could just do, eg "-I- *.class", rather than "-I ! -I
> *.lib -I *.o -I *~ ...."

This pretty much illustrates why "-I !" often is inconvenient:
fill in one "-I $SUFFIX" for _every_ single default ignore item ...


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